21 Problems Only Pale People Understand

You should really just buy stock in Coppertone.

2. It's impossible to be in any photo situation where the flash on a camera is needed. Just don't even bother trying to be in a photo at night.

3. All lipsticks are bold lipsticks.

4. In the summer you have to buy a new bottle of sunscreen every other week. And if you're going on vacation, you need an extra suitcase just for the sunscreen.

5. People sometimes ask you if you dyed your hair darker, when no, you just got paler.

6. You get sunburns in weird shapes/random places (i.e. cow spot on ankle, long streak on thigh) when you first go to the beach in the summer because you inevitably miss spots with the sunscreen. You then get to enjoy these spots for weeks.

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7. People consistently ask if you are a ghost, which stopped being funny a looong time ago.

8. When you're "tan" you're actually just a normal human skin tone. So no one notices.

9. That is, if you can get tan at all. Otherwise, you just burn and then turn back to your regularly scheduled shade of pale.

10. You need two kinds of concealer to cover up your dark circles.

11. You almost always look kind of sickly in photos. Instagram filters are your best friend.

12. However, when you try to put yourself in walden you are just eyeballs.

13. You are kind of creeped out by yourself because you can see many of your veins.